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My favorite thing about iTunes is how easy it is to make mixes. Tompaul and I have been making each other mixes for as long as I can remember…definitely since we started dating. I am not even sure how many in all we have made.

In truth the only other person I have made a mixes for is my friend Myntha. No wait…I made one for Mary Heather called Pink Rain. I think in all I have made Myntha about 4 mixes. Out of Apathy, Bitter, Sweet, and Winter: Death of Reverence. And now Broken. I make music mixes when I am feeling good. If I am making a mix it means I am in tune with my soul, my id etc. When I am feeling intellectually constipated my music mixing ability stops. It goes into hibernation…unused. I feel that when I make a mix I have something I want to say. When I am overwhelmed with work, residency, I have nothing to say. My brain is silent. Since starting fellowship I have mede a total of two mixes Broken and Longing. I am also working on a mix I started quite a while back.

So here I present Broken:

1. Ambulance – Eisley

2. Rise Up – Diane Birch

3. World Spins Madly On – The Weepies

4. Love the Way You Lie – Eminem

5. Mess Of Me – Switchfoot

6. Hero – Jars of Clay

7. The Wanderer – Johnny Cash (w U2)

8. Fighting Furies – Charmaine

9. Fix You – Coldplay

10. Forgive Me – Jars of Clay

This is Longing. The full title is Longing: Songs of A Time Travelers Wife. I compiled it while Tompaul was away. It’s a tale of waiting, bitter sweet. It was the space I was in when starting fellowship, living in a new city and waiting for Tompaul to come home. He was gone almost a month and while I was waiting I had alot of heavy things on my plate. Job search, Noelle being ill and the uncertainty of that etc.

Distantly I remember being a fun and interesting person...but that seems long ago. I sold my soul and now I am going to reclaim it.
I am in Baltimore for a year of fellowship. The city is not "the greatest city in America" as the benches would have you believe. I am going to use this time to reclaim my passions and hobbies before it is too late!